Word: stingiest
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...against Columbia on Saturday would assure the team a share of the league championship. Ranked No. 19 in the nation in the most recent Adidas/NSCAA Division I poll, the Crimson brought the nation’s fifth-best offense to the Ivy League’s stingiest defense. The Big Green (6-7-3, 3-2-1) had only allowed 11 goals in 15 games prior to yesterday. “In training this week, coach [John Kerr] harped on us being patient,” sophomore forward John Stamatis said. “We were confident that the goals...
...second-stingiest unit in the nation last year, Harvard’s blueline corps returns four of its six starters in seniors Hafner and Tom Walsh, junior Reese, and sophomore David MacDonald. Gone are Noah Welch ’05 and Ryan Lannon ’05, two stalwarts now in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization...
...this year? The assistant captain will share one of the nation’s stingiest defensive units with All-American Noah Welch, steady junior Peter Hafner, and Reese...
Penn’s defense is also the toughest in the league and one of the stingiest in the nation. It took Harvard three-quarters to figure it out last year, at which point the Crimson was already down 29-9. The good news for Harvard is that Penn is unlikely to get that much separation, seeing as the Quakers have put only scored more than 22 points in four quarters twice this year. That being said, it’s still going to take at least three touchdowns to win this contest, so the Crimson has to find...
France isn't the stingiest: it spent 2.2% of its GDP on R and D in 2002, compared to only 1.84% for Britain (the U.S. spent 2.8%). So maybe it's not so surprising that at a breakfast last week with top scientists, British Chancellor Gordon Brown outlined a 10-year investment plan to boost British scientific research - and didn't say how much he was planning to spend...